Romania needs a comfortable budget in order to be fiscally attractive, but this can only be done through administrative reorganization, considers president of the Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIR) Mihai Daraban.
"For Romania to be attractive (...) we need a comfortable budget. In our opinion, this comfortable budget can only be obtained through the administrative reorganization of the country. We can no longer go on with the counties of '68. I don't see why instead of 42 counties there wouldn't be 15, 10, anyway, fewer, because all of us here - I, you, all the guests in the studio - we never needed an administrative act from a county council. So I don't see why there should be 42 county councils, let alone that I don't understand why they exist in the first place, when we also have prefect's offices," Mihai Daraban told the conference "Upgrade Romania: The Impact of 2024's Large-size Investments" organized by DC Media Group.
He added that there should be no more communes with less than 5,000 inhabitants or towns with less than 10,000 residents.
"(...) I don't see why there should be seven mayor's offices in Bucharest, with seven councils and seven budgets, one plants palm trees, another one takes them out. I really don't understand why there is so much budgetary waste. And more than that, looking at those small communes, there has never been a journalistic investigation to see how many gyms that cost RON 20 million, i.e. RON 4 million apiece, are spread all over the country but none of them works, or let's say 10 percent of them work at the very best, there are gas and sewage pipelines no one is connected to, schools built in areas with no children a.s.o. It's all a waste of money. That's why we are fighting for that budgetary comfort in order to become attractive. Of course, if you put me in charge, I would lower all the taxes on business and workforce, but being able to do this requires this massive cut of the administrative apparatus," declared Daraban.
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